Apache Ant 1.9.4

May 5, 2014 - Apache Ant 1.9.4 Released

Ant 1.9.4 contains several bug fixes and improvements compared to Ant 1.9.3,
including the initial support for Java 1.9,
the possibility to run JUnit tests in multiple threads (when they are forked)
and the refactoring of Ant's own test suite which is now based on JUnit 4.

Apache Ant 1.9.2

July 12, 2013 - Apache Ant 1.9.2 Released

Ant 1.9.2's javadoc task provides a workaround for the recently
patched frame injection vulnerability of the javadoc tool found in
Oracle JDKs prior to Java 7u25 known as CVE-2013-1571. The task
will now post-process the generated files and remove the
vulnerability if detected.

In addition some interoperability patches to the tar and zip
classes have been applied.

Apache Ant 1.8.4

May 23, 2012 - Apache Ant 1.8.4 Released

Ant 1.8.4 fixes a denial of service flaw in the
<bzip2> task present in any version of Ant
since Ant 1.5.

Apache Compress Antlib 1.2

April 20, 2012 - Apache Compress Antlib 1.2 Released

The Apache Compress Antlib 1.2 is now available for download as binary or
source
release.

This release adapts to the 1.4 release of Apache Commons
Compress and now adds support for the XZ format and supports a
wider variety of tar dialects including limited support for the
current POSIX standard.

February 29th, 2012 - Apache Ant 1.8.3 Released

The Ant developers have decided to require at least Java5 for
Ant 1.9.x so this may be the last release that supports Java 1.4
as runtime environment.

Apache Compress Antlib 1.1

November 5, 2011 - Apache Compress Antlib 1.1 Released

The Apache Compress Antlib 1.1 is now available for download as binary or
source
release.

This release adapts to the 1.3 release of Apache Commons
Compress and now adds support for Zip64 extensions, the Pack200
format and read-omly support for the Unix dump format.

Apache AntUnit 1.2

August 16, 2011 - Apache AntUnit 1.2 Released

Apache AntUnit 1.2 is now available for download as binary or
source
release.

In addition to a few bugfixes and some new assertions AntUnit
1.2 allows Ant references to be passed from the build file
containing the <antunit> task to the build file containing
the tests .

EasyAnt enters the Incubator

February 1st, 2011 - EasyAnt enters the Incubator

The EasyAnt project has been successfully being voted to enter the Apache Incubator and Apache Ant is sponsoring it.

The EasyAnt project aims to leverage the popularity and flexibility of both Ant and Ivy in order to provide an easy to use build system. EasyAnt will provide ready to use ant scripts to build standard java applications or webapps just like usual Maven users are used to. It will still remain adaptable by offering a property based configuration. And even more as you will be able to easily extend existing modules or create your own ones.

numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
and in WHATSNEW

Apache Ant 1.8.0

Februrary 8th, 2010 - Apache Ant 1.8.0 Released

Key features of the 1.8.0 release are

Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only defined inside a target,
sequential block or similar environment. This is very useful inside
of <macrodef>s where a macro can now define a temporary property
that will disappear once the task has finished.

<import> can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource -
this includes <javaresource>.
This means <import> can read build file snippets from JARs or fixed server URLs.
There are several other improvements in the area of import.

Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help with symbolic link
cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java installations for example) and improve
scanning performance. For big directory trees the improvement is
dramatic.

The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm has been rewritten
(breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be more powerful.
The whole local properties mechanism is implemented using that API and could be
implemented in a separate library without changes in Ant's core.
Things like the yet-to-be-released props Antlib can now provide often required
"scripty" fuctions without touching Ant itself.
At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten to do the expected
thing if applied to a property expansion (i.e. if="${foo}" will mean "yes, do it"
if ${foo} expands to true, in Ant 1.7.1 it would mean "no" unless a property named
"true" existed). This adds "testing conditions" as a new use-case to property
expansion.

A new top-level element <extension-point> assists in writing re-usable
build files that are meant to be imported. <extension-point> has a name
and a dependency-list like <target> and can be used like a <target>
from the command line or a dependency-list but the importing build file can add
targets to the <extension-point>'s depends list.

Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later

new task include provides an alternative to <import> that
should be preferred when you don't want to override any targets

numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla
and in WHATSNEW

Apache Ivy 2.1.0

October 8, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.1.0 Released

Key features of the 2.1.0 release are

enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and
more pom features covered

new options for the Ivy Ant tasks and commandline

configuration intersections and configuration groups

numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Jira
and in the release notes

July 13, 2009 - Apache IvyDE 2.0.0 Released

This is the first release considered as stable since the project as been hosted
by the Apache Software Foundation.

Major changes in this release:

the "resolve in workspace" feature (make IvyDE search for Ivy dependencies
directly into the Eclipse projects) has been introduced in the last release
but was quite experimental. It has been refactored to be more reliable and
have been reported to be working like a charm by some of the IvyDE early users.

the user documentation of IvyDE is now available directly into the Eclipse help center.

Apache Ivy 2.0.0

January 20, 2009 - Apache Ivy 2.0.0 Released

This is the first non-beta release of Ivy under Apache and includes some major new features
like: enhanced Maven2 compatibility, improved cache management, improved concurrency support
and numerous bug fixes and other improvements.

Apache AntUnit 1.1

September 26, 2008 - Apache AntUnit 1.1 Released

Apache AntUnit 1.1 is now available for download as binary
or source
release.

In addition to a few bugfixes and some new assertions AntUnit
1.1 allows test listeners to receive the log output of the
project under test. Both plainlistener and xmllistener have
an option that makes them echo the project's output into their
respective logs.

June 27, 2008 - Apache Ant 1.7.1 Available

Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!

October 11, 2007 - Apache Ivy is an Ant Sub-Project Now!

Apache Ivy, "A Java based tool for tracking, resolving and
managing project dependencies.", just finished Incubation and has joined
the Ant project. More information will be available from the Ant
site soon.

Until we've finished the migration, you can learn more about
Ivy from its Incubator
website.

Apache Ant 1.7.0

December 19, 2006 - Apache Ant 1.7.0 Available

Ant 1.7 introduces a resource framework. Some of the core ant
tasks such as <copy/> are now able to process not only file
system resources but also zip entries, tar entries, paths, ...
Resource collections group resources, and can be further
combined with operators such as union and intersection. This
can be extended by custom resources and custom tasks using resources.

Ant 1.7 starts outsourcing of optional tasks to Antlibs.
The .NET antlib in preparation will replace the .NET optional tasks which ship in Ant.
Support for the version control system Subversion will be only provided as an antlib to
be released shortly.

Apache Antidote Retired

The Antidote subproject was once started to provide a GUI for
Ant at a time where IDE support for Ant was far from usable.
Unfortunately it never attracted a developer community of its
own.

At the same time IDE support for Ant has become ubiquitous by
now and there is little reason to have a GUI just for Ant. This
makes it even less likely that volunteers will start to spend time
working on it.

Antidote's development has been stalled for years now, despite
some efforts to rejuvenate it by single developers. Therefore the
Ant developers have chosen to retire Antidote.

Antidote will no longer be developed by the Ant project; its
CVS module will be shut down.

Apache Ant 1.6.0

December 18, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.6.0 Available

As
we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release
requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.

Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support
for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that
makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release
notes.

If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you
did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the
Wiki.

Apache Ant 1.5.4

August 12, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.5.4 Available

This is a minor bugfix release that fixes a problem with the
javah task on JDK 1.4.2 and a couple of bugs in the
Visual Age for Java intergration tasks. If you don't use javah or
VAJ, there is no reason to upgrade.

Java Pro 2003 Readers Choice Award

June 11th, 2003: Apache Ant wins a Java Pro readers' choice award

Thanks to Java Pro and all its readers. You can read about
these
awards
at the Java Pro website.

JDJ Editors Choice Award

June 2003: Apache Ant wins JDJ Editors' Choice Award

"Ant is the hammer of the Java world: without it, civilization might have progressed, but much more slowly than it has. Ant is one of the most useful build tools I have ever had the pleasure to use." - Joe Ottinger

Apache Ant 1.5.3

April 9, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.5.3 Available

Apache Ant 1.5.2

March 3, 2003 - Apache Ant 1.5.2 Available!

The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is available for
download.
If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the dev and user mailing lists.

Apache Ant Top Level Project

November 18, 2002

The Apache board created
the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
is now located at http://ant.apache.org/

Apache Ant 1.5.1

October 3, 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5.1 Available !

The final version of Ant 1.5.1 is still available for
download. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.

Apache Ant 1.5

July 15, 2002 - Fix for Cygwin problem in wrapper script available

The wrapper script of Apache Ant 1.5 needs to be replaced with a new
version for Cygwin users. See the FAQ for details.

July 10, 2002 - Apache Ant 1.5 Released!

The final version of Ant 1.5 is now available for
download. If you have any feedback on this release, feel free to join the
discussion on the ant-dev and ant-user mailing lists.

Apache Ant has won!

Mar 26, 2002: Apache Ant wins the JavaWorld Editors' Choice
Award

Ant has won the JavaWorld Editors' Choice Award for
Most Useful Java Community-Developed Technology.
Read the
full article -- or jump directly to the bit about
our award:)

Java 1.4 Support

Feb 15, 2002: Java 1.4 Support

Java 1.4 has now been released by Sun. The latest Apache Ant source supports
the new assert statement in the compiler task via the source
attribute. It also contains a compatibility fix needed for some ant tasks
on Java 1.4 over Windows XP. If you have problems running Ant 1.4.1 on WinXP/Java 1.4,
please use a recent build or compile your own version from the source tree.